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Russel Tarr considers key issues from the life of the famous Cardinal.

Russell Tarr sees similarities but also important contrasts in the foreign policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

Russell Tarr explains how the Bolsheviks established their grip on Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and at what cost.

A manager of men and a master of contemporary politics, writes Esmond Wright, Dundas was Pitt's energetic colleague “during the most critical years in Britis

In recent decades few fields of historical inquiry have produced as rich a body of work as the British Civil Wars.

Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics.

Fifty years on from Winston Churchill’s death, Chris Wrigley surveys the literature available, highlighting key works and lesser-known titles.

Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of history can be hard to predict.

What voting rights did Britons have in the century before 1918?

The House of Lords, often in the shadow of the Commons, asserted its power during the reigns of James I and his son, Charles I.

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo